Guardian Force UK

Well my predictions were made out of hope rather than an educated football guess so I only got the 4 correct.

This round was interesting with 21 goals in just the 8 games.  There were calls for goal line technology, calls for Capello’s head and calls to the Nigerian Prime Minister to let his team go out and play with the other boys and girls.

OK, England.  They are out and here’s a list of things I need to say about it… (more…)

So my predictions were OK, I got 13 out of 16 correct. I wished I’d trusted myself and gone with Japan over Denmark and of course no one could have predicted Italy failing as bad as they did.  Another 16 games and 33 goals which isn’t bad.  England are through, France and Italy managed to get as many points combined as New Zealand (Who were unbeaten BTW), North Korea conceded 11 without response. (more…)

Well that week seemed very quick.  Except for the 90 minutes on Friday night that dragged like a cat bringing home a freshly killed “gift”.  We found out that 4-4-2 doesn’t work, the ball doesn’t dip and the referee doesn’t know his dive from a swinging elbow.  There were many good results with the big teams continuing to drop vital points but again the ball seems to be hampering those long shots and free kicks.  There was an improved 42 goals in 16 games so maybe they’re getting used to it.  France are doing their best to take over Holland’s title of “Most Self Destructive” but ever competitive England are starting to challenge for that title too. (more…)

So, the first week has gone and the first round of matches is complete.  With 16 games and just 25 goals it hasn’t been the goalfest every fan wanted.  Blame the ball, negative tactics or vuvuzelas, only Germany, who have had the ‘Jabulani’ ball longer than any other team managed to score a few.

So after the first game round robin portion of the tournament, here are my “Awards of the week” (more…)

So we mainly post about gaming, media and cats playing musical instruments but alas politics affects all things, even lolcats and so with the upcoming UK general election I thought I could offer a brief insight into where and why my vote is currently going. Let’s get the fact right first.

I am 25, that means I have only voted once before in a proper election, I come from a mining town in the Midlands and I have worked, at least part time, since I was about 13. Tax Records will state that I started significantly later. I’m not ashamed to say I have an anti-Tory bias.

I come from a mining town, my dad was a miner, and I was born in the early 80′s that means my childhood was heavily influenced by the fallout of the miners strikes. On top of this the Tories are hardly the most “in line” with my belief system, I am libertarian (although that Wiki article is shit) and even though this Political stance embraces many ideals it does not stand for the unbalanced “save our rich people” campaign the Tories are basically pushing.

This being said I have approached this election as unbias as possible, I listened to what Cameron had to say just as much as the other parties and I would not deny them my vote just because past policies have been pretty crap.

Anyway, the truth is that this election is really important, the World Wide economic crisis has really shook things up and there are a lot of game changing decisions to be made over things like tax, immigration, virtual law, privacy and national defence that drastically effect me and my peers, we really need to get this one right. So far we have had months of campaigning and one interesting TV debate (with two to go) so here are my thoughts so far… (more…)